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Where You Can (also) Find Me These Days 11 Aug 2010 | 06:55 am
My first short story collection is now published. We Are Almost Always On The Verge is 13 stories of love and loss, the fictionalized first cousin of what many folks found compelling about this site. ...
Ahem 1 Oct 2009 | 04:07 pm
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Teaching In The 408: Author's Index 15 Nov 2008 | 04:12 am
It's a strange thing, to posthumously reflect upon and involve yourself in a blog – this undertaking that chronicled an unparalleled, unequaled period of my life. It's a strange thing to have those th...
Good Ideas For Inhibiting School Growth (postscript) 5 Sep 2008 | 09:05 am
This blog's like that woman you keep kinda hanging on to, even though you know you should move on and stopstop thinking about her. But it's just always been so good, and the APR was made public today,...
Rocking Out In One Day Magazine 23 Aug 2008 | 05:57 am
My essay on the "reinvention" of teaching appears in the summer issue of Teach For America's alumni magazine One Day. The original text is below; the print version, edited by One Day's staff and witty...
Rocking Out in ASCD's Education Update 20 Aug 2008 | 04:46 am
I'm kinda heavily quoted in an essay in ASCD's latest newsletter entitled Taking the Fear Out of the First Year. If you're interested in such things, it's well-written and smart, and besides the self-...
And Another Bond Broken 13 Aug 2008 | 04:25 am
I have this old-school hard-shell briefcase, defaced with bumper stickers and ill-treatment, in which I keep my classroom artifacts -- smarty pants, certain pictures, student work samples, balls and b...
Rumors Of My Demise... 30 Jun 2008 | 10:57 am
…while admittedly self-generated, may prove to be largely exaggerated. Or at least premature. In a few weeks I start work with the stellar folks at The Education Trust – West, an organization doing h...
The Party's Over... 26 Jun 2008 | 02:42 pm
…a CD skipping/ it’s the same hook repeating grows more grating with each passing second/ and the walls contain a resonation laughter and conversation/ it was fun while it lasted but now I should be g...
Fifty-One Minutes 16 Jun 2008 | 12:23 pm
Dear Jake, So this is what you want, huh? What you told people you were going to do, what you always talked about? This is what you said you wanted, right? No, for reals – you’re gonna do this? You’r...
